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we hear you loud and clear welcome

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aboard the space station

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thank you very much indeed it is very

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exciting to hear from you and and scott

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thank you for coming back on the program

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we have

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so many questions from outlook listeners

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so i'll plunge straight in you've been

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there for more than nine months now in

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this tiny enclosed space

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what has surprised you both most about

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you know i i knew a year was a long time

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but i guess i really didn't know how

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long it was until i've been up here for

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nine months and have about two months

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ahead of us so

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you know besides that i'd lived up here

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before so most of the other stuff was

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not a surprise

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no surprise for me i was ready to

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one year on space and agree with scott

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you agree with scott that time is

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i wouldn't say it's dragging but uh

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you know definitely there a year is a

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really long time to be be anywhere

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clearly we have a question from an

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outlook listener in india called

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yeshwanth kakala he says isn't it boring

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no i don't i can't say i've ever found

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myself bored uh there's a lot of work to

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we have uh over 400 different

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science experiments going on throughout

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the time i'm i'm here in all different

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scientific disciplines it takes a lot of

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you know a lot of effort to keep the

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and i do find that i don't have enough

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uh free time to do the things that i

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would like to do in my free time so

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it's never uh it's always busy and never

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you know i miss uh i'm assuming you mean

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on on earth i miss uh you know

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the first thing is people you know these

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these guys are great but it'd be great

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the other thing i miss is going outside

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you know the experiencing

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you know environment

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is uh you know exposed to nature and uh

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also the freedom to kind of do things

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that you choose here we're on a very

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strict uh strict schedule

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which is necessary i mean there's a lot

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of a lot of work to do and it's very you

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know closely choreographed so it has to

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be that way but having the you know the

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freedom to kind of choose what you're

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something i definitely notice i've

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mikael what's the thing that you found

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hardest to give up while you've been in

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how interesting because normally we're

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busy envying you seeing the earth

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and it is not a business trip on earth

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when we are training during our training

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trips we travel a lot

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friends women's home and of course uh it

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we experience we miss our homes

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when you come back to earth

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of us misha can answer after

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you know what i um

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what i'll definitely miss is doing

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something that's very very challenging

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something that takes a lot of effort and

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you know working hard at it and then

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most enjoyable about being an astronaut

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it's a very challenging job and

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maybe it will be unexpected but i

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will miss the station

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i will miss our crew

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i think we're very well knit crew a very

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i think this feeling is close to those

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to go back to the north into the

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mountains again and again so it is a

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very similar feeling

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you say you'll miss the crew mikhail but

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be honest you know they must irritate

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you sometimes you're spending so much

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time cooped up together what is scott's

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nothing irritates me and annoys me

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in scott just like in any other crew

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specifically not to have any bad habits

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friends and i feel very comfortable

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is your question or you're asking me if

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i have any bad habits i'm asking you if

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it's really true that you don't have any

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question before especially during an

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tests while you're up there to find out

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vision uh while we're up here and that's

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the russian segment where we put a

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negative pressure on our body so we can

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of smell is affected maybe a little bit

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listener jacobo santa marta burrell um

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who's in spain how do you both feel

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i look forward to coming home in a

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lot but you know i still

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we have constant communication with

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uh phone communication and video

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conferences and

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we receive all the news and i don't

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expect any huge changes on earth when i

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come back i would like to say the same

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thing as scott i looking forward to

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going back home i will be enjoying the

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first days the first months

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then we'll go to houston i love this

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city and i think it will be a great time

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being up there and away from home for so

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long does it make you think differently

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about your life on earth and more

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it does give you a unique uh perspective

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changes that i think are occurring um on

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pace of work before the landing usually

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it happens that the closer the return

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slower you start working no this is not

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totally we totally need to understand

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that we have to take care of our earth

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careful with our earth until it's too

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late thank you both so much for taking

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you're welcome

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station this is houston acr that

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thank you bbc world service radio